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Indian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since 1920 and this edition of the Games marked the nation's 25th appearance at the Summer Olympics. [4] Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
India won six medals including a silver and five bronze to be ranked 71st amongst the 206 NOCs that participated in the Olympics. This was India's third-best medal haul after the 2020 and 2012 respectively. Manu Bhaker won two bronze medals in shooting and became the first Indian to win two medals in a single Olympics since India gained ...
[6] [7] These medals were won only by female athletes for the first time in history, a silver to badminton player P. V. Sindhu in the women's singles, who became India's youngest individual Olympic medallist and the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver, as well as a bronze to freestyle wrestler Sakshi Malik in the women's 58 kg, who ...
The Indian Olympic Association was established in 1927 and was recognised by the International Olympic Committee in the same year. [1] It is the country's National Olympic Committee. [2] India was one of the first five founding members of the Asian Games Federation on 13 February 1949, in New Delhi. It disbanded on 26 November 1981 and was ...
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India 25 September 2023: Asian Games: Hangzhou, China [11] 50m backstroke: 25.18 Srihari Nataraj India 20 June 2021: Belgrade Trophy Belgrade, Serbia [12] 100m backstroke: 53.77 tt: Srihari Nataraj India 27 June 2021: Sette Colli Trophy Rome, Italy [13] 200m backstroke: 2:01.70 h: Srihari Nataraj India 25 August 2019: World Junior Championships ...
India competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. [1] A total of 83 athletes, 60 men and 23 women, competed in 13 sports.Men's field hockey was the only team-based sport in which India was represented in these Olympic Games.